Travel & Transportation

Buckminster Fuller, Bridgeport, and the Car of Tomorrow
By Charlie McMahon (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As with any…

George Washington in Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! George Washington…

Agnes Watson: A Tourist’s View
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2021-2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In September…

A “Mystic-Built” Schooner for the Centennial
By Rebecca Bayreuther Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On a…

Coasting out of the 70s
By David Allen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Though I grew…

Two Men in a Car: Connecticut’s Early American License Plates
By Marcy Fuller (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2008 Have you ever noticed the Early…

Julia Fish Gates: The Life of a Sea Captain’s Wife
By R. Bayreuther Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Letters quoted…

Boss Tweed Puts Greenwich on the Map
By Alan Owen Patterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2008-2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut has…

Destination: the Shoreline Trolley Museum
By Michael Schreiber (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A century ago,…

Traveling Hartford-Area Turnpikes—Then, Now, or Never? Plans for a beltway around Hartford hit a dead end.
By Frederick A. Hesketh Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Close observation as…

Soapbox: Preserving the Meritt Parkway
By Leigh Grant (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! To drive along…

What’s Up With Stratford’s Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Plant?
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! If a…

Motoring with the Hickmotts: when automobile travel was adventure.
By Diane Pflugrad Foley and Mark H. Jones (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy…

Full Steam Ahead: Steamboat Travel in Connecticut
By Brenda Milkofsky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Long Island Sound…

The Ill-Fated Farmington Canal
By Ellsworth S. Grant (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It was…

Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach
By Lynne Brickley (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Spring 2008 Subscribe to receive every issue! From…

Windsor Locks: Bradley International Airport
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2016 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue! Connecticut is well…

The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist
by Lawrence S. Carlton, M.D. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A…

Frederick Rentschler: The Sky’s the Limit
by Jack Connors (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The imposing statue…

The Horseless Era Arrives
by Dave Corrigan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc, SPRING 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By the mid-1890s…

Destination: Railroad Museum of New England
By Brent S. Bette (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Visible evidence…

Preserving Connecticut’s Aeronautical History
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Sometimes preservation means…

Carry Me Across the Water: Our Historic Bridges
By Mary M. Donohue with Bruce Clouette (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2015 Subscribe/Buy the…

Sikorsky–Still Revolutionary
By Alexander Soule (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2014 Subscribe to receive every issue! It was…
Connecticut’s National Park Quest
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This wouldn’t…
Getting There: a Quick Transportation History
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Do you…
Stories of Great Escapes & Landscapes: Summer 2006
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I love…

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